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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 8, 2024 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Hidden Treasures from the Liu Hankun Family Collection | 8011 | $****** - ****** | Good | Birthday poems in kaishu |
Works on Paper
172 x 91.3 cm (67.72 x 35.94 in)
ink on paper
Signed, dated 1794
王文治 楷書賀奇麗川五十壽詩四章
水墨手繪雲蝠蠟箋 立軸 一七九四年作
簽書:王夢樓侍讀介奇麗川中丞壽言。麗川先生賜存,施嘯岑敬贈。
款識:台階佳氣滿青旻,申甫由來是嶽神。早歲才名高弟甲,中朝清望接星辰。九華旌節山橫翠,百粵襜帷海靖麈。最是三吳人有福,十餘年沐錦陽春。開府開藩次弟升,即今江左洽歡聲。（公久駐江左,士民皆以未膺開府為憾,鸎遷後一時歡聲踴躍,袁簡齋前輩即其意為詩,東南人士屬和有〈江左歡聲冊〉）
千山秋色如人澹,一鑑春波似政平。呂相最能肩大事,范公祇是順群情。維揚兩度權鹽筴,獨放扁舟載月明。（公兩攝鹽政事,秋毫無所與,商民均感）
寮屬傾誠士女安,更將餘事領騷壇。吟成好句春猶淺,讀罷奇書夜欲闌。學業千秋堪作鏡,文場萬指與傳餐。（公監臨鄉試最得士心）
公閒忽得驚人語,獨有隨園擊節看。（公天才神妙處,迥出恒流,唯與隨園默相契合）
鄴侯風格本超然,清畏人知骨愈仙。一任樓臺無寸地,常將心事告蒼天。夔龍妙擅韓蘇筆,元凱還臻黃綺年。莫恠山人遙勸酒,山人詩句賴公傳。
甲寅嘉平恭值麗川大中丞大人大衍之慶,謹賦里句四章申祝。部民王文治。
鈐印:「王文治印」、「曾經滄海」、「柿葉山房」。
上款:「麗川」即奇豐額（1745-1806）,先世為朝鮮人,後隸內務府滿洲正白旗。乾隆乙酉（1765）舉人,己丑（1769）進士,歷任安徽、廣西布政使、江蘇巡撫、兵部侍郎、右副都御史等職,乾隆六十年任庫爾喀喇烏蘇領隊大臣,嘉慶元年任葉爾羌辦事大臣。
註:奇豐額工餘嗜詩詞,著有〈容雅堂詩集〉,與京江文壇往來頻仍,尤與袁枚交情甚篤,〈隨園詩話〉中多番輯錄其詩句。他好邀文人雅士酬唱,王文治即文友之一,〈夢樓詩集〉即收錄〈奇麗川方伯僧服像三首〉、〈送奇麗川中丞還都次簡齋前輩韻二首〉,〈為趙琭亭題對松山圖六首山在泰岳之半滿山皆松圖是李穀齋所作其六〉中亦補注曰「麗川中丞為其馳書索題故並及之」。
本幅寫於一七九四年,選用手繪雲蝠紋紅蠟箋,乃王文治寫賀奇豐額五十壽慶,時奇氏任江蘇巡撫,故稱「中丞」。四章詩中,間以小字補註,盡述其歷年仕途功績,自年少高中,署皖、桂布政使職、開府江蘇、攝鹽政、監鄉試,以至文才出眾,與袁枚相契,皆有提及。奇氏昔日風神,一目瞭然,堪作生平之補遺。
題簽者常州名士施嘯岑（1899-?）,名愷澤,曾著〈蠖屈室駢文鈔〉。後轉贈同籍劉國鈞收藏,劉氏恰與奇氏同號「麗川」,如此巧合,亦藝緣矣！
172 x 91.3 cm 67⅝ x 36 in.
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Wang Wenzhi
1730-1802
Birthday Poems in Kaishu
ink on paper, hanging scroll
signed, dated 1794, with 3 seals of the artist. Titleslip by Shi Xiaocen
172 x 91.3 cm 67⅝ x 36 in.
